1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. 11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
1 unde bella et lites in vobis
nonne hinc ex concupiscentiis vestris
quae militant in membris vestris
2 concupiscitis et non habetis
occiditis et zelatis et non potestis adipisci
litigatis et belligeratis
non habetis propter quod non postulatis
3 petitis et non accipitis eo quod male petatis
ut in concupiscentiis vestris insumatis
4 adulteri nescitis quia amicitia huius mundi inimica est Dei
quicumque ergo voluerit amicus esse saeculi huius
inimicus Dei constituitur
5 aut putatis quia inaniter scriptura dicat
ad invidiam concupiscit Spiritus
qui inhabitat in nobis
6 maiorem autem dat gratiam propter quod dicit
Deus superbis resistit humilibus autem dat gratiam
7 subditi igitur estote Deo
resistite autem diabolo et fugiet a vobis
8 adpropiate Domino et
adpropinquabit vobis
emundate manus peccatores
et purificate corda duplices animo
9 miseri estote et lugete et plorate
risus vester in luctum convertatur et gaudium in maerorem
10 humiliamini in conspectu Domini et exaltabit vos
11 nolite detrahere de alterutrum fratres
qui detrahit fratri aut qui iudicat fratrem suum
detrahit legi et iudicat legem
si autem iudicas legem non es factor legis sed iudex
12 unus est legislator et iudex qui potest perdere et liberare
tu autem quis es qui iudicas proximum
13 ecce nunc qui dicitis
hodie aut crastino ibimus in illam civitatem
et faciemus quidem ibi annum
et mercabimur et lucrum faciemus
14 qui ignoratis quid erit in crastinum
quae enim est vita vestra
vapor est ad modicum parens
deinceps exterminatur
15 pro eo ut dicatis
si Dominus voluerit et vixerimus faciemus hoc aut
illud
16 nunc autem exultatis in superbiis vestris
omnis exultatio talis maligna est
17 scienti igitur bonum facere et non facienti peccatum est illi